166. Tony Whitehead

Have you had any other good, almost famous put-away dogs?

Well, Hamish was the first one.

Hamish, yep.

Yeah.

I know John Perry wanted to buy him.

I was taking a few at Canberra with him.

He said, I'll buy that dog off you.

I said, no, you won't.

He said, I'll give you good money.

I said, you haven't got enough money.

He said, how do you know how much money you've got? And I said, well, I don't care how much you've got.

Kerry Packer hasn't got enough money to buy this dog.

So that should tell you something.

It should tell you something.

He's not for sale.

Yep, yep.

And did you breed him?

No, he was bred by George Ballard.

Yep.

He was a bloke that used to teach carpentry, I think, at the Bathurst Technical College.

Yep.

And his wife, Jocelyn, used to do a bit of judging.

Yep.

And when Jim was in Sydney, I used to go down to Sydney and help run the Sydney trial.

Yes, yep.